Rajasthan Tourism And FHTR Signed MOU to Organise a Domestic Travel Mart

The MoU was signed between the Additional Director Tourism, Sanjay Pande and Bhim Singh, President, FHTR, at an event held at Hotel ITC Rajputana, Sheraton, Jaipur in the presence of Nihal Chand Goel, Chief Secretary of Rajasthan.

DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM, Government of Rajasthan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism of Rajasthan (FHTR) for organizing the ‘Rajasthan Domestic Travel Mart’ 2018. The event will be held on July 20 and 22 at the B.M. Birla Auditorium in Jaipur.

The MoU was signed between the Additional Director Tourism, Sanjay Pande and Bhim Singh, President, FHTR, at an event held at Hotel ITC Rajputana, Sheraton, Jaipur in the presence of Nihal Chand Goel, Chief Secretary of Rajasthan.

Speaking on the occasion, Goel said that the primary objective of ‘Rajasthan Domestic Travel Mart’ is to exclusively focus on the domestic tourists from various parts of India and establish Rajasthan as one of the leading domestic tourist destinations in the country. The vision 2020 initiated by the CM had an objective of 5 crore tourist footfall in the state by the year 2020. But the State has attained close to 5 crore tourists in the year 2017 itself and with new initiatives like this, the State intends to achieve the set goal and probably outperform our own predicted numbers, he said.

Subodh Agarwal, Additional Chief Secretary – Tourism, who was the guest of honour on the occasion said that a travel Mart for domestic tourism is first of its kind in Rajasthan and second in India. 15% of the total State GDP is through tourism, he said underlining the significance of tourism for the State. In order to promote the event, FHTR will organise promotional shows across the State in coming months, said Bhim Singh.